OK, after about the fourth or fifth time I've decided to uninstall this program... too slow, doesnt seem to offer any benefits, etc etc, each to their own and all that but....

WTF is it every time I uninstall it, it does its best to trash my machine. Its not just this one either, every machine its been on when its been uninstalled, it totally knackers up the HTML and URL associations... Windows no longer knows what to do with them, and the icons are all goofed up. Every time I've uninstalled it, I've spent half an hour fixing the mess it left behind.

Never, ever again

Que the comments asking why I wanted to uninstall it... answer, its cack.

Nothing online anywhere about how to get round such problems removing it? Or have you just let it trash the associations each time?

As you say, each to their own. Good luck with IE

i use

IE

Opera

and FireFox

and by far the best has to be opera!!

its fast very informative never been slow with me, never crashed, very reliable, skinable, and generally very good , it also has a very good download engine allowing you to queue downloads pause and loadsa stuff

www.opera.com

or http://www.opera.com/download/ direct link to the download page

Well, I've had a quick look, but to my surprise theres no information about this seemingly... although there does seem to be a fair amount of problems, but none that I can find at the moment that specifically deal with my problem. Maybe most firefox users are so deleriously happy with it that they dont uninstall it and thus dont come across the problem, who knows... anyway, maybe not quite cack, but still not to my tastes to be honest, but I dont appreciate having to fix my machine every time afterwards... but anyway, it wont happen again cos I wont install it again As for what I did, well I just followed all of the usual tricks for fixing corrupt HTM/HTML/URL associations and icons. I cant be bothered to link them all here, as that'd involve going through my history and frankly I'm too damn tired at the moment :(

Nevertheless, I did find this, and although it is quite clearly more user error than anything else, I may as well include it for your amusement...

http://www.techreviewer.com/viewpage.cfm/pi/80/view/full/

www.opera.com

or http://www.opera.com/download/ direct link to the download page

Thing is, I've used Opera for an extended period of time, and found that full of rendering bugs as well, so many pages fudged up, way more than Firefox. I do like the interface though, but although it gives the illusion of being very fast, I dont really think its any faster than anything else out there.

Can you get round the associations problem in XP by jiggering with the Set Program Access and Defaults control panel?

Only a suggestion - I am happy with Firefox, don't find that the slowness is obvious and prefer the protection you get from having a less 'targetted' browser.

Thing is, I've used Opera for an extended period of time, and found that full of rendering bugs as well, so many pages fudged up, way more than Firefox. I do like the interface though, but although it gives the illusion of being very fast, I dont really think its any faster than anything else out there.

out of interest which version were you running? as 7.54 seems to run fine

:confused:

Whatever was the latest version at the time... about 3 or 4 months ago.